[OT] tech USB problem on Lenny

[Lisi Reisz]

If I plug a USB item (key, card, camera) into the box and try to mount it, I
get the following error message:

<quote>
Rejected send message, 3 matched rules; type="method_call",
sender=":1.6" (uid=1000 pid=2582 comm="kded [kdeinit] --new-startup ")
interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member="Mount" error
name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
(uid=0 pid=2381 comm="/usr/sbin/hald "))
</quote>

The processor is a Pentium III Coppermine, speed quoted by KDE Infocenter as
697.684 MHz , so probably 700 MHz.  Running a freshly installed Lenny.  
Motherboard is an Intel D815EEA

The USB is a 4 port card, probably PCI.

Can anyone tell me what is going on?

All suggestions very gratefully received.

Thanks,
Lisi


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[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Lisi Reisz said:
> If I plug a USB item (key, card, camera) into the box and try to mount it, I
> get the following error message:

I suspect you need to be in something like the plugdev group.  While
you're at it, make sure you're part of the powerdev and netdev groups so
you can use things like network manager and the suspend and resume stuf.

Take care,
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[Lisi Reisz]

On Saturday 13 June 2009 18:33:42 Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Lisi Reisz said:
> > If I plug a USB item (key, card, camera) into the box and try to mount
> > it, I get the following error message:
>
> I suspect you need to be in something like the plugdev group.  While
> you're at it, make sure you're part of the powerdev and netdev groups so
> you can use things like network manager and the suspend and resume stuf.
>
> Take care,

Thanks for the advice.  I checked and found that user belonged to one group
only: user.  So I added user to a selection of groups, including those you
advised.

I gleefully connected a camera.

And I still get exactly the same error message. :-(

I myself, on my own box have no such problems.  Cameras are just
plug-and-play.  My box too is running Lenny, and I have made sure that user
belongs to all the groups to which I belong.

Is it possible that the USB card  on the problem box is USB1, and all the
gadgets I have tried have been USB2?  I know that USB2 is backwards
compatible, but is USB1 forwards compatible?

Thanks,
Lisi


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[Lisi Reisz]

I am moving this to the Debian list, since, after Stephen's kind reply and
some more effective Googling, it appears to be a software problem after all,
and perhaps a bug in Lenny.

Lisi


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